Faculty Biography

Gary Fisher, Lecturer


Contact:
(585) 389-2694
gfshr@frontiernet.net


Departmental Responsibilities:
Applied Piano
Community Music Program Coordinator


Education:
Eastman School of Music, DMA
Boston University, MM
SUNY Buffalo, BFA


Biography:
Dr. Fisher has been awarded academic honors at each of the institutions from which he received his degrees. His principal teachers at these schools have included Stephen Manes, Maria Clodes Jaguaribe and David Burge. Further work with the eminent American pianist and pedagogue, Leonard Shure, for whom he served as teaching assistant at The New England Conservatory, is of central significance to his pianistic and musical training. While residing in the Boston area for many years, Dr. Fisher was Chair of the Faculty at the South Shore Conservatory; he also served as Dean of the Music Division at the Performing Arts School of Worcester. Between 1991 and 2002, he was a member of the faculty of the Community Education Division of the Eastman School of Music. Dr. Fisher is an active adjudicator, and is currently President of the New York State Music Teachers Association.